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Washburn Leader.
BY R. H. COl'ELAKD.
WASHBURN, NOllTH DAKOTA.
KICXEI3 UY A COttf'SE.
Grewsoma
Exdot
ence on a Dark
Mlssour Road.
"I had my hat kicked oil one night
by a dead man," said John A. Ed
wards. "When a youngster of 19 I
was riding a star mail route in south
eastern Missouri. It was just after
the war, and footpads were pretty
plentiful. One dark night a couple of
these gentry tried to hold me up, but
I was mounted on a mettlesome horse
and I socked the spurs home and rode
over them. I went plunging on
through the darkness for several
hundred yards, when my horse stop
ped 110 suddenly that I inadvertently
left the saddle and sat astride his neck.
My roadster was trembling all over
with fright, but, to save me, I could
see nothing. I thought it must be
more footpads, and spurred the horse
forward, while I held my pistol ready
tor the expected attuck. As I passed
a large walnut tree that nearly
coveivd the road a big muddy boot
struck me in the face and scraped my
hat off. I concluded that I did not
need a hat, so I did not stop to re
cover it. On rny way back next morn
ing I found that the kicker was a dead
man, who was swinging from a limb,
with a piece of paper pinned to his
shirt, on which was scrawled: 'Thou
glialt not steel—speshally cows and
mewla.'"
BATTLE IN MIDAIR.
How Three Salors Captured an
Eagle on a Topsal Yard.
When the tank steamship Christine,
sixteen days out from Copenhagen,
was 100 miles southeast of Nantuck
et shoals, an immense ea^le alighted
on the foretopsail yard. The Chris
tine arrived recently wi'h the eagle a
captive aboard, says the New York
Advertiser.
When the bird alighted Carl Olsen,
a sailor, climbed up to the mainyard
and grabbed one of the bird's legs.
George Anderson and Christian Peter
sen, able seamen, followed Olsen,
Petersen carrying a bag. As the eagle
attemp:ed to pick out Olsen's eyes
Petesen and Anderson crept along
the t. spar and threw the bag over
the eagles head, but not before a des
perate battie in midair was fought.
The eagle drove its bill twice into
Andersen's arm and scratched Peter
sen savagely. A large cage was hast
ily constructed and in it his majesty
was placed. The bird measures 0 feet
from tip to tip andhas talons 6 inches
long. The eagle will bo presented to
the Royai Swedish institute.
AND SHE HAD IT.
In
The Widower Was Too Much
Farnest to Kick About It.
An instance of great matrimonial
felicity is given by the wife of a New
England farmer, who, finding that a
widower in the neighborhood pro
posed to marry her maiden sister,
aged 52 years, felt called upon to give
the good man a sliiiht warning. As
she triumphantly says, she "ain't
ever felt t' regret it."
'"Now," says I, real firm to him a
week before the weddiu,' 'you know
old maids is set—they're terrible
set,'
"'Why, air they?' says he jest as
solemn as could be, lookin' me right
jn the eye.
"•Yes,' says I, 'they air. They al
ius want t' hev their own way alius.'
"*\Vh, dew they, indeed?' says he
"'Yes,' says I, 'they dew an ye can
rely on't Hetty she'll want her own
way'
"'Why, will she?" says he.
"'YeH,' says I, 'she will there ain't
any doubt 'bout it—not a mite.'
"Well says he, kinder slow and
mild, still lookin' me in the eye, 'she
can hev her way!
"An' she does hev it, and they live
est complete!"—Gripsack.
Favorl Colors.
White, yellow and pink have been
the favorite colors since the first day
of June at Paris, and the three colors
are still holding their own. llow
especially, writes a French corres
pondent, is very much in vogue, and
women seem to have found out quite
suddenly that yellow is not at all a
color which only brunettes can afford
to wear. It is worn as ground tone
for entire toilets, and again you see it
as trimming on dresses, white,
heliotrope and "Scotch."
A Fair Offer.
Old Gentleman—"Do you think,
sir, that you are able to give my
daughter all the luxuries to which she
has been accustomed?"
Suitor—a practical man.—"Well,
yon have been paying for her board
and clothes, and I have been pa ing
for concerts, theaters, operas, and so
on. Now I'll pay for the board and
clothes, and if ou foot the amuse
ment bills, I don't think she'll miss
anything.
A Just Debt.
Chicago Clergyman—(as the bride
groom hands him his fee)—f'our dol
lars, please.
Bridegroom—But I thought your
fee was on)y two dollars?
Clergyman—It is to regular custom
ers, but you do not patronize me
regularly.
\2t
A
SCOURGED WITH FLAMES.j
MILWAUKEE IN A FURNACE OF
FIRE.
The Cream City Is Overwhelmed by
the Presence of the Devas
tating Element Many
Millions Co'Up in
Smoke.
Loss of Life.
Milwaukee, Oct. 29, 2:30 a. m.—This
city last night was visited by tlie most
devastating fire in the city's history.
Four lives were certainly lost and ios
sibly more.
Insurance men estimate the loss at
$5,675,000. Others think the loss will
amount to $10,000,000.
The llatnes, which started in the Mil
waukee Gas company's building, fanned
by a furicus gale, swept eastward across
toward the Menominee river and uotli
in could restrain them. Dynamite was
used but without effcct. Mihgty billows
of flames swept over dlocks of buildings,
leaped over the river and jumped across
streets.
All sorts of conveyances were hurry
ing about the Third ward, loaded with
the belongings of the people on whose
homes the flames were rushing. The en
tire fire department was powerless.
Chicago, Itucine and other cities were
asked for assistance, and by 10 o'clock
engines and firemen from out of town
were beginning to arrive.
More than eleven blocks of solid terri-
ive wholesale district, has been burned
over. Ncnrly seventy buildings, two
thirds of which wers frame dwellings,
faded into smoke as fast as tissue paper.
Tlie loss is almost inestimable at this
time, but will reach into the millions.
The district burned at 10 o'clock includ
ed the territory extending diagonally
from the alley between Detroit and Buf
falo streets to the corncr of Erie and
.Ti-flvrson streets. At that time the Me
nominee river, with the big Manegold
elevators and the great Kissip factories
just across the border, was less than a
block away from the roaring flames.
The fire started in the store occupied
by the Union Oil company, at 275 East
Water street. At the time three fires in
various sections of the city had called
many of the engines, so it was fifteen
minutes before a response was made to,
the alarm from the corncr of Detroit and
East Water streets. In a short time
seven or eight streams bad been directed
upon the flames. There was a series of
explosions, but in half an hour streams
from several tugs were playing on the
building. It seemed as if the very cur
rent of the Milwaukee river was being
emptied upon the red brick block
was stated that the fire was helped by
the terrific explosion In the oil barrels.
Thousands of people, attracted by the con
tinued alarms, had rushed to the vicinity
and watched the fight with interest bctweon
the great force of firemen and the puffing
steamers, reached the conclusion that It
was not much of a fire after all, and went
home. Then It was about 6:40 o'clock. Only
black smoko Issued from the buildings.
Fifteen mlnuteB later the tired firemen be
gan to feel the enemy getting out of their
grasp. Renewing their efforts they fought
with every weapon known to the art. The
flames were too much for them. The fire
gained a footing in the adjoining store of
Dohuien & Co. It was then that It got be
yond control. At 7 o'clock the big factory
of the Bubb & Kipp company, facing on
Broadway, almost a full block away, begat
to blaze. The fire had started with the wind
in the norteast, but it had now veered to
almost due east, and merchants In the busi
ness section of the East side grew scared.
The flames jumped across the streets on the
three-story brick building of Broadway, for
merly occupied by the cracker trust, but
then vacant, began to totter and warning
voices urged the crowd back just In time.
The whole front of the building pitched Into
the street.
Meanwhile the stampede over the ground
they had formerly In the store of J. P.
Kissinger and the Milwaukee art glass
works opposite the block In which It had it*
origin. The Wellaure block, six stories
high, was soon in a connection of flame with
the Milwaukee Chair company, a vacant
building and the wholesale grocery store of
Roundy, Peckham ft Co., and all on. Broad
way. The next building to succumb waft
that of the National Distilling company. The
wind was still Carrying the whirlwind of
seething flame on toward Lake Michigan in I
a direct line with Its starting point, and the
scran\61e began. Chief of Police Janssen
ordered his entire force to the fire, and they
assisted in getting out the furniture and
household goods of the luckless families,
who were forced to flee from the path of
the flames. Buildings between Detroit and
Chicago streets were licked up as if they
had been outlines of paper. All these build
ings were consumed within half an hour of
the time when the flames leaped over Broad
way and started In the Wellaur block. Sud
denly the wind swept around as'unexpected
ly as before. Where It was northeast with
the first alarm. It was now almost due
south, cutting out a broad avenue of de
struction toward the Milwaukee river.
Iu its path luy the big freight sheds and
yards of the Chicago & Northwestern rail
road, together with the round bouse and Its
valuable contents of rolling stock. The end
of the freight sheds at the corner of Jef
ferson and Chicago streets was the first to
ignite, and the flames soon spread all over
the yards, burning freight cars and every
thing before it. The company soon had a
force at work saving its property. Locomo
tives and many freight cars were taken out
of harm's way. Ou Jackson street the fire
Iiartment
off with dynamite. Three kegs were ex
ploded In tho building, having been stored
there to await the coming ot the flames. As
each went off in close succession the cry
went up from the thousands who blocked
the streets for a radius of a mile that the
gas works had exploded.
It was about 0:30 o'clock when the first
building on hte northeast corner of the Mil
waukee Gas company's plant began to burn.
The gas works occupy the territory bounded
by Milwaukee, Menominee and Erie streets
and the alley between Jefferson, and-Jack*
tory, including much of the most oxtens- school house and died from heart disease.
Her anme and address could not be learned.
Slie was taken to Peacock's undertaking es
tablishment. It in rumored that other lives
east side of East Water street and had tak- 1 control of the Minneapolis & St. Louis are
Ing a firmer grip In the big Bubb & Kipp about to be consummated. The road is
a
1
Five minutes more and Jacob. Wellauer ft
Co.'s wholesale grocery store on the east
side of Broadway, directly opposite Bubb ft
Kipps', was in flames. It seemed as if a
mountain of fire welled across Broadway.
One instant and the east side of Broadway In he hands of the Rock Island, and the
was in flames and the next the rolling people Interested in the latter, and It lias
waves of fire swept across the street, de- passed into the hands of an Eastern synd
cccnded on the buildings opposite, and with- catc, headed by the banking firm of Au
In a moment they were wrapped in flames, gust Belmont & Co. of New York, which
A thousand sti earns of water could not stay represents the Rothschilds in this country,
such a conflagi atlon In its march of destrue- Most of the Rock Islaad people who were
tion toward the lake. The walls of the dire iters of the Minneapolis & St. Louis
was raging. 'Along Broadway It swept to tended to these men.' Mullen, it will be re
the Waisel ft ltllter Manufacturing compa- I called, was sentenced for complicity in the
ny's plant at Chicago street and to No. 10
Euglne House on Broadway. When It
reached the Waisel ft BUter plant the de-
had' prepared an attempt to eat
ion streets.'The* gas went "out la" many
parts of the city, and it was feared the Whitehall, on March is, i»»3 .me explosion
works were doomed, but at 11 o'clock ths sjjJthe police offices, Scotland Yard, _May_30,
pest oil tanks were still Intact The bethel Jte tower erosion JS&
home wear the gas works caught flre soon 2*. 1885» "id the dsmsgs done to the hooM
after. Wirth ft Hammel's livery stable on of comomns the same day. In jrtew of
Broadway, containing hundreds of horses the cases it cites, the Telegraph defies the
was In the path or the flaming cyclone, government to degrade ths
Home horses were safely taken away, whlls mercy by releasing ths human monsters who
a number were stampeded. The Laura Cat-1 took part in these outrages.
tonamite.^Arounil on Erie street the
Geoge Toeppcr Iron foundries and the Rel-
derberger vinegar works were also destroy'
ed, together with Innumerable small build
ings, saloons and residences. The valuable
property of the Milwaukee Gas company
was almost entirely saved. -When the fire
began to head that way. the tanks were
sank below the level, leaving nothing com
bustible above the surface. Thus the flames
almost encircled the works without commu
nicating to them. The malt house burned
on the cast, the Relderbergcr vinegar fac
tory and other buildings ou the west, while
there were countless structures in flames to
the north, yet nothing on the property was
destroyed but a coal pile and the small
building. The lire spout itself on the ex
treme eastern Hide when it destroyed the
Hansen elevator.
At midnight it was thought to have done
Us worst, but the flames arc still raging
among the acres of burning and smoking
ruins. Hansen's malt house within a few
rods of the border of I..like Michigan, with
an adjoining elevator, made a brilliant dis
play when it caught. The elevator was first
to ignite, and it sent a tall column of flames
Into tlie heavens. In a few minutes the
flames communicated to the malt house,
and that, too, was soon razed, to the earth.
11:30 Leldertpri's block and moat of the
shops in the Mocks between Buffalo and
Brie streets were on lire The lire depart
ment was working at the Fernlcke's candy
factory corner. Gold and Franks' is sur
rounded by lire, but at midnight is consid
er."il safe, although its saving Is scarcely
less than a miracle.
Over ."iOO frame buildings nre a mass of
ruins, the inhabitants literally fleeing for
their lives and losing everything excepting
the clothes tliey wore and what they could
grab Tip. There were hundreds of cars in
tlie Northwestern yards which were lost.
The tire district is as barren as the Amer
ican desert, except for here and there a
chimney stack which has resisted *tlie em
brace of the flames and stands pointing 9
blackened linger at the ruin below it. From
Detroit Rtreet and Broadway to the lake the
sun to-inorrow will rise on a barren plain.
It is rumored that some lives were lost in
the Kipp factory, as many of tlie .•nmlnves
were at work when the flames descended so
suddenly on the big building, bp it MO
p. m. two dead firemen were brought to the
morgue. One was Henry Poddenbrush, of
Steamer No. 3. The other llreman could not
be identified. A worn'in about forty years
of age sought refuge in the Third wardl
were lost.
Under Control.
Oct. 30, 2:45 a. m.—The fire at this hour
Is fully under control. At the morgue three
bodies, two bravo firemen and an elderly
lud.v are stretched cold and clinrrel in
depth. At the Kinergency hospital four
other victims of the lire are prostrated, two
of whom nre not expected to survive the
morning. These four are men. Another
very seriously injured person has been re
moved to the St. John's hospital. They
are unidentified. Five engines, belonging
to the local department, have been literally
melted before they could be got out of the
way.
Judge llrewcr's 'Decision.
St. 1'aul, Minn.. Special, Oct. 20.—
Additional interest has been imparted to
the decision recently handed down by Mr.
Justice Brewer In regard to the "loug and
short haul" clause of the Interstate com
merce act by the criticism offered by a
prominent railroad man and was published
in yesterday's Pioneer Press. This criticism
is hostile to the decision on the ground that
Its effcct will be to discriminate between
American railroads. Thus, take the case of
two routes running between two given
points. One route consists of one road con
trolled by one company and the other of
two or more connecting lines, all under dif
I ferent management. According to the decl-
slon the latter route can quote any rate for
the entire distance that the connecting lines
may agree upon and still not interfere with
the local tariff of each line. The former
route, on tho other hand, consisting of one
line is subject to all the rigors of the long
and short haul clause, which would give the
connecting lines an enormous advantage.
Judge Brewer's interpretation of the inter
state commerce 'act In this respect is so
radically different from that which has been
commonly accepted that his decision prac
tically amounts to a new law on long and
short haul rates. If the decision prevails
then a few comparatively weak routes will
be in a position control the freight traffic
of tho country. That is on the supposition
that other and stronger roads which contapl
their own lines over great distances are com
pelled to adhere to the provisions of the
''long and short haul" clause. But such a
condition of affairs wjuld seem so Inequit
able that either the restrictive clause of else
tho decision will probably have to be set
aside as being contrary to public policy.
An important Deal Consummated.
Chicago, Special, Oct 29.—Some highly
interesting changes In tho management and
now and has been for several years In the
hands of a receiver. So successfully has
Receiver Trae3dale handled this property
that there Is a large surplus in tho treasury,
and the attention of Eastern capitalists has
been called to the rood, which was formerly
have iesigned and their places have been
filled with men connected with the August
Belmont syndicate.
The road will soon be foreclosed, and it Is
understood that the Belmont syndicate will
bid it In and assume control, and that the
new owners as soon as they gain possession
will enter Into an alliance with the Great
Northern, and it is quite probable that the
latter will manage its affairs. The terminal
facilities of the Minneapolis ft St. Louis are
the best in Minneapolis, and these are badly
needed by the Great Northern. The Minne
apolis ft St. Louis now forms the Minneap
olis and St. Paul end of the Rock Island's
"Albert Lea" route, and if the new manage
ment should be unfriendly to the Rock
Island It could cut It out of the St. Paul
business. It Is understood, however, that
the new owners arc friendly to the Rock
Island, and stand ready to enter Into
deal with It whereby It can conthiue to use
the Minneapolis & St. Louis as its Minneap
olis and St. Paul outlet.
Release of Fenians.
London, Oct. 27 —At the cabinet* council
that will be held to-morrow, Mr. Morley
chief secretary for Ireland, will present pro
posals for the release of all political pris
oners in Ireland. The ministerial decision
on oil these proposals will Involve the ques
tion of granting amnesty to all the men con
victed of taking part iu the dynamite out
rages a "few years ago. The principal pris
oners serving sentences under conviction on
these charges are confined in English pris
ons. The Conservative papers do not object
to the release of the Fenians, Mullen au«l
Dowling, and the dynamiter J. F. Egun, who
have served two-thirds of the time to which
they were sentenced. Even the Right Hon.
Henry Matthews when he was secretary ad
mitted that clemency might early be ex-
niui der In Phoenix Park, Dublin, of Lord
Frederick Cavendish who was' chief secre
tary for Ireland, and Mr. Burke, under
secretary. Dowling was implicated in the
murder of a policeman named Cox. But the
goverrinent will not dare to face the conse
quences that would follow the release of
Mr. Gallagher and others concerned in caus
ing the explosions in London, Liverpool and
Glasgow. The Telegraph to-day recalls the
most notoble of the dynamite outrages that
have been perpetrated from 1881, Including
the attempt to blow up the Mansion house,
London, on March 16, 1881, the attempt at
the Liverpool town hall on Jane 10, 1801,
the second attempt at the Mansion house,
London, on May. 12, 1682, the .ex-
HAD A THIRST FOR BLOOD.
TERRIBLE DEED OF AN ARCTIC
EXPLORER.
Bartlett.a Survivor of the Jeannette
Expedition, Kills His Wife's
Niece, Shoots His Wife
and Commits
Suicide.
A Triple Tragedy.
San Francisco, let. 31.—Early thcis
morning James Bartlctt, one of tic sur
vivors of the Jeannette expedition, shot
and killed his wife's niece, Lottie Car
penter, shot his wife in the shoulder and
then shot and killed himself. Mrs. Bart
lett was aroused by a pistol shot in her
niece's room, and as she rushed out in
the hall she Diet her husband, who, with
1 out a word, shot her through tlie shoul
I der, inflicting a painful but not dangcr
ous wound. Then he shot himself
through the bead. When the neighbors
rushed in they found Miss Carpenter
dead by the side of her bed, where evi
dently she had sunk down when shot as
she was trying to escape. Since his rc
turn from the Arctic regions Bartlett's
mind has been weak, as the result of
hardships experienced, and yesterday he
threatened to murder his wife and niece.
llnrncd Vessels.
Philadelphia, Oct. 31.—Point Breeze was
visited again by fire this morning and the
wharves and shipping docks were damaged
to the extent of nearly $200,000. The iron
bark Felix, Capt. Italues, which was lying
at the wharf awaiting a load of refined oil,
was sunk, and the bark Ellen G. Loaded
with cased oil, was badly damaged. A
lighter bark, loaded with cases of oil, was
burned to the water's edge Charles House
man's lime barge was destroyed, 500 feet
of wharf property was destroyed, a house
and barn belonging to the city were wiped
out and other property was destroyed or
damaged. The fire burned stubbornly all
day, and it was not until late this evening
that it had been extinguished. Shortly after
4 o'clock this morning the firemen at the
pumping station were startled by the sound
of an explosion. A moment later the
flames shot up from the river and a pall
of dense black smoke began to gather over
the harbor. The explosion heard was caused
by the bursting of a pipe connecting the
Philadelphia & Atlantic oil refineries, locat
ed on the east side of the gas works. The
oil pipes are burled under the roadway
above the wharves. The escaping oil worked
down through the coal and collected be
neath the furnaces at the pumping station
in such quantities that when it became ig
nited it exploded with sufficient force to
break down the retaining wall and the
whole volume of oil spread In a burning
mass over the surface of the water. Al
most Immediately the flames were headed
off before they reached the works of the
Atlantic Refining company, and the firemen
saved the gas plant and the Philadelphia
ltefining works. The greater part of the
damage to the shipping is covered by In
surance, but the other losses will be total.
Will Turn Out in Force.
London, Oct. 31.—The Socialist committee
of six met to arrange for the Trafalgar
Square demonstration on Nov. 0, the anni
versary of Bloody Sunday, has formulated
a resolution which will be fo.-mulated and
undoubtedly adopted at all platforms on
that day* It affirms that the number of un
employed wolkmen in the United kingdom,
anil especially in Loudon, is increasing
with ularming rapidity that the suffering
during the condng winter is likely to be un
precedented, and that, therefore, the impe
rial government, county councils and all
the other bodies of local authorities ought
to prepare to supply employment on needed
public impiovemeuts. The Trafalgar Square
demonstration is being "boomed" and or
ganized by H. M. Hynman, J. Hunter
watts, Shaw Maxwell and other conspicu
ous social Democrats. The fund for the
demonstration is under the care of William
Saunders and he reports that the contribu
tions have far exceeded expectations.
No Place For Partisanship.
New York, Oct. 31.—'William F. Rounds,
who has just returned from Europe, where
he went as an United States delegate to the
international prison conference, made an ad
dress on reform this evening at the Waverly
Prison Presbyterian church. He attacked
the political system prevailing in this city,
county and state prisons. He said that the
law forbids partisan appointments in the
prisons ou penalty of expulsion from of
fice on examination of Clinton prison he
found fifty-seven officers to be intensely
Democratic partisans who had no experi
ence in prison work, but who were drawn
from the industrial trades. The greater
number of these were from Edward Mur
phy's district. Warden Tuber, with fifteen
years' of satisfactory experience, was thrown
out of his position on forty-eight hours' no
tice to make room for a man with no ex
perience whatever. After this came the es
cape of Bunco Stecrer O'Brien.
A Raisin Grower Falls.
Fresno, Cala., Oct. 31.—A. D. Barling, a
rising grower and shipper, has filed a pe
tition in the superior court asking to be de
clared an insolvent debtor. The failure is a
verv serious one and one of the largest
that has ever taken place here. Barling's
liabilities aggregate $113,000. At the com
mencement of the fruit season Barling
boifght heavily. He made big shipments
East, but just then the cholera scare came
on and the bottom dropped out of the fruit
market, seriously embarrassing him. A
number of fruit and raisin growers will lose
considerable by the failure. A large num
ber of merchants are also among Barling's
creditors.-
Idaho Rich in Marble.
Boise City, Idaho, Oct. 3J.—F. B. Scher
merhorn. the mineralogist itnd geologist em
ployed in collecting and classifying Idaho's
exhibit for the world's fair, has arrived here
from Cassia county. In that county he ran
across a wonder in the shape of a vast mar
ble quarry fifteen miles one way by twenty
two the other, and in sonic places 800 feet
in thickness. Twenty kinds of marble are
to be found within the- boundaries of this
vast field of unhewn headstones. There are
still other vast quarries beside' this yet un
claimed and owned by the government,
which conslBt of pure white marble equal
to the famous Italian article.
Hla Wealth Faded Like a Dream.
Chicago, Oct. 31.—L. W. Moilngo, a fur
niture dealer of Bioomlngton, 111., came to
this city to-day with $800 to pay some bills.
He showed his money to a crowd people,
but be cannot show It to anybody now.
When he left his hotel be was met by a nice
young man who knew: all about him. They
took several drinks, itnd Mr. Mozlugo showed
his wealth only to "See1 it fade like a dreaui.
The young n-an grabbed it and went his
way with all possible speed, while Mr.
Mozingo trudged slowly to the police sta
tion to tell the police all about the passing
of his 1000.
A Hole in the ndller.
Alexandria, Va., Oct. 31.—The steamer
Wakefield, of the Potomac river line, while
ou her way up the river to-day and when
off Maryland Point blew a hole in her boiler
where the steam chimney connects. The
accident coused the death of three colored
men and the serious injury of two others,
all members of tue crew. Engineer B. L.
Germond was painfully scalded about the
hands and face. There were about thirty
fiassengers
prerogative
of
vMf
on board, but none of the.n were
njurea nor was there much excitement
among them.
Changes in a Parle Rapids Bank.
Park Rapids, Minn., Special, Oct. 81.—On
Nov. 1 there will be a change In the bank
ing house of W. L. Window of this city,
R. E. Davis of Long Prairie having bojight
the cortrolllng interest and' Mr. Wlnslow
home. The bank will be known In the fu
ture as the Shell Prairie bank, H. K. Davis,
president W. L. Wlnslow, vice president.
William M. Tabor retains the position of
cashier. Mr. Wlnslow will retire from tho
active management and will remove to Min
neapolis.
Illness of a Cardinal.
Paris. Oct.
81.—Cardinal
Lavlgerie.who has
been slllng for some time, is reported to
have become suddenly worse. Bis physl
dsns consider his condition critical.
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the Phoenix Act.
Milwaukee, Oct. 31.—The scene of Milwau
kee's great fire was visited by fully
150,000
people. Not only was more than half the
population of the city there during the day,
but thousands came from neighboring towns.
It is one of the clcanest swept fire districts
ever seen, and Is now practically cold, only
the ruins of some of the great wholesale
houses needing the services of the fire de
partment All of the important firms
burned out will resume business at once,
and many arc already preparing to rebuild.
The Hansen Malt company, whose Idss was
$000,000, baa architects at work on plans for
two eight-story buildings. The Northwest
ern Railway company has rebuilt a portion
of Its freight house switches, and already
has a new root ion one of the great freight
houses. One end of the building was under
roof while the ruins of the freight which
had been stored in the other end were still
blazing. The company is ready for freight
business. Insurance men are confident that
the insurance will reach $3,000,000. The ag
gregate loss will be •louble that sum. Sub
scriptions to the relief fund have reached
$08,000. Among the large additions to it to
day was $1,000 from Clara Barton, of the
Bed Cross society. The citizens' relief com
mittee is thoroughly organized, and the
homeless are all being provided with the
necessaries of life. The distribution of cloth
ing to the needy will begin at once. Over
3.UOO meal tickets were
Issued
to-day, anu
the eatlfig houses were crowded all day.
Many of the homeless arc being
cared
for py
friends, and about COO are located
In
the
Third ward school house, where beds and
cots are provided. Several large passenger
steamers are beiug used as temporary quar
ters. At the meeting of the common council
to-morrow It is probable that arrangements
will be made for building
extensive
barracks
for the accommodation of the homeless.
President Hase and many members of the
council favor that course.
Great Wealth Within Reach.
Denver, Oct. 31.—The past week has been
a surprising one in the Cripple Creek gold
camp, and at least one big discovery has
been made. The' camp is all excitement
over the /wonderful strike made in the
Eclipse yebterday. The Eclipse is located
in the Euua gulch, and has been a regular
shipper for two months past, averaging
absut a car load each week. The returns
from these shipments have averaged over
$100 a ton, but there was nothing In the
character of the ore to prepare the men who
were taking it out for the wonderful stuff
that was uncovered yesterday. At a depth
of ninety-five feet a vein of white talc and
crystallzed quartz was encountered, the
vein being apparently about four feet In
width. The ore is full of rusty gold, some
of It being in large cubes which even old
miners pronounce the most wonderful dis
play of free gold they have ever seen. There
is much to indicate that this camp will be
what experienced mining men have claimed
all along—the greatest mining camp in the
world. There are over thirty shipping
mines, and the advent of the railroad will
double the number.
One of tho biggest strikes in the history
of Creede Camp has been made in the Holy
Moses, the original mine of Creede. It is a
four-foot vein of good ore. with an eighteen
Irch streak running $1,000 to the ton. The
Moses will at once become one of the big
shippers of the camp.
The Mollie Gibson mine at Aspen Is dis
playing her marvelous capacity again this
month, and is- marketing some of the richest
ore ever taken from a silver mine in the
world. It is as possible for the mine to
produce $300,000 per month as it is $100,
000. The owners, however, seem satisfied
to pay a regular monthly dividend of $150.
000.
The Wheat Crop.
New York, Oct. 31.—The American Agri
culturist, in its November number, prints
an elaborate review of the wheat situation.
It points out that exports from India are
falling off, that Russian wheat is beiug held
for an advance, and that the surplus for
export from Australasia and South America
is very small. The world's reserve supply
was by no means made up by last year's
heavy yield in the United States, and the
replenishing of these reserves accounts for
our enormous exports and the active foreign
market at present. The Agriculturist's ver
ification of the returns for 1802 by confer
ence with the state agencies for crop sta
tistics, where such exist, and by its own
system of reports. Indicates a total wheat
crap for 18D2 of 494,434.000 bushels. It
claims that the area of wheat lias been
greatly exaggerated, the yield per acre un
der estimated, and the total crop reported
at 5 to 15 per cent more than was actually
harvested. This year's total crop by states
appears from the paper's review as fol
lows. in round millions of bushels:
Pennsylvania. IS Ohio. 31 .Michigan, 21
Indiana, 34 Illinois. 21) Miuuesota. G2
Iowa, 8 Nebraska, 17 Missouri, 24 Kan
sas. OS California, 25 Dakota, 06 other
states, 00.
The area under cotton this year Is also re
turned at 10.643,000 acres. The yield per
I acre is placed at 172 pounds, and the total
crop nt not much over 0,500.000 bales, of
a gross weight of 500 pounds per bale. This
indicates a crop nearer ft.500,000 to 7,500,000
bales of 480 pounds per bale.
Dangeroun Men to Tackle.
Selma, Ala., Oct. 31.—On Thursday night
the house of David Sanders, white, who
lives six miles from Selma, was shot Into
by a crowd of negroes. Sauders got out of
bis bed. followed the negroes and shot and
killed two of them. He returned home,
procured a wagon and carried the dead
bodies of the negroes to the village of Sal
Its. Sanders was arrested and on prelim
inary hearing was discharged. On Friday
ulght Wesley Ethrldge. another young white
man living at Rlchmoud, became involved in
a difficulty with a crowd of negroes. He
shot and instantly killed one of them. An
other of them, Columbus Reeves, who had
drawn his pistol to shoot Ethridgc, attacked
Ethrldge with an ax. Ethridge shot and fa
tally wounded him. Another negro at
tacked Ethrldge and he was shot and dan
gerously wounded. Everything Is now
quiet.
Christian Kndeavorerx Gleet Ofllcera
Yankton, S. D., Special, Oct. 31.—The
State Christian Endeavor union In session
here elected the following olilcers for tho
ensuing year: President, Esther A. Clark.
Yankton vice presidents. 1). W. Smith,
Huron,. H. S. Drown, Teiupleton, Oscar
Kanolff, Mitchell, L. E. Sissions, Sioux
Kalis, Miss Levistor, :-tepid City, N. F.
Aekerson, Centervllle recording secretary.
Miss Pa.vne Madison oorrespoding secretary,
Wilbur Lawrence, Columbia treasurer, Liz
zie Grover, Planklnton. Sioux Fulls was
selected as the place for holding the next
convention.
said he was a famer from Cherokee, Iowa,
appeared at police headquarters in this city
from New York, wliere .he had been_ a vie-
tlm of the "green
the swindlers $1,000 for
soon found was filled
bricks. He only had fu..«= c-..nothing"but
catr.v him as far
UUKu
as
bricks. "iSe" only" had^funds'^nough'1mil
left''to T®
this city, and he wanted
to get home. The police notified his sister
of his predicament.
Tennyion'd Memory.
New York, Oct. 31.—A Tennyson memorial
service was held nt the Brick Presbyterian
church at Fifth avenue and Thirty-ninth
street this morning by Rev. Henry Vnn
.v.. HUB blUffUOl
vv» IIIHJ UIVI »ISI^ UJ
doors. The pastor, who'was a warm inenu
of the lute poet laureate and spent last sum
mer at his home at Aldworth, preached a
touching memorial sermon.
MontsAHTronnil.
Cheboygan, Mich., Oct. 31.—A tremendous
Northwest gale has prevailed since last
evening. The scow Essex Is on the light
house point and a raft of 2,000,000 feet of
.logs belonging to Felton ft Held is reported
to have been lost. Other rafts have been
proken up. There will probably be a big
list of disasters :to record when the wlnu
goes down.
Sale of Pine Lands.
Chippewa Falls, Wis., Special, Oct. »1.—
The Chippewa Valley Land company ot this
ettyahas Just closed the sale ot 2,800 sens
of pine lands In Itasca county, Minn., to the
Hall ft Sheldon Lumber company and the
Carpenter Bros,' company, the consideration
being $220,000,
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OLD OCEAN REAPS ANOTHER
HARVEST.
An Anchor Line Steamer Is Wrecked
Fifty-five Passengers and
Sixty-Seven of the Crew
Sacrificed to Nep
tune's Wrath.
Nine Were Saved.
London, Oct. 20.—The British steamship
Roumanla was wrecked to-day at tho mouth
of the Arelho river near Peniche, Portugal.
One hundred and thirteen persons were
drowned and only nine were saved. The
Roumanla had fifty-five passengers aboard,
together with a crew numbering sixty
seven. The nine saved from the wrek havo
been given shelter in a hospital In the
neighborhood. The Roumonia's captain and
pilot are among the lost. Large quantities
of wrekage are washing ashore along the
coast. The Roumanla was an Iron screw
steumship of 3,387. tons, belonging to tho
Anchor Line, and plying between Liverpool
and Bombay. She sailed from Liverpool for
Bombay, on Oct. 22.
Tho steamer Louvre, bound for Bayonne,
was wrecked at Penmarch, Finisterre, last
night. Seventeen persons were drowned.
Tho gale that has prevailed on the south
west coast of Ireland for the past three
days Is now greatly abated. Among II
vessels that have suffered through stress
of weather is the Dutch steamer Schiedam,
from Baltimore for Rotterdam. Her voyage
was so prolonged that her coal ran short
and was obliged to call at Queenstown to
replenish her bunkers. She. reports the
weather as having been terrific. The In
man line steamer City of New York was un
able to call at Queanstown yesterday be
cause of the heavy weather. The Liverpool
pilot is aboard of her and will have to ouflw
the passage to New York unless ho is placed
on board some incoming steamer. The
tender from Queenstown with passengers
and mails on board remained outside for
two hours and a half and then returned
without getting alongside the City of New
York. This incident is without precedent in
the history of Atlantic mail steamers.
The Cunarder Etrurla, from New York,
which passed Browhead to-night, has expe
rienced violent weather. Owing t- the se
verity of the storms she was unable to dis
embark either passengers or mails here,
and proceeded almost directly for Liver
pool. A tender was damaged in attempting
to fasten alongside her, and the Utrurla's
master was drowned while the effort was
being made.
A Queenstown pilot boat which haa just
returned from a cruise off the Irish coast
passed off the harbor of Queenstown a
steamer belonging to the Johnston line
bound for Liverpool which reported having
passed two disabled steamers westward of
Fastuet Rock. The Johnston liner could not
ascertain the names of the disabled steam
ers. and was prevented by the gale from
giving them any assistance.
Suffocated by Smoke.
Cleveland. Oct. 29.—Two fires which oc
curred to-day within an hour in the heart
of the city caused a property loss of at least
$250,000, the loss of one life and tho seri
ous Injury of half a' dozen persons. Tho
first alarm called the department to the
works of the Cleveland Window Glass com
pany on Champlain street. The three-story
brick building was filled with smoke and
the employes, both male and female, were
rushing down the stairs. The fire was
quickly extinguished, and a search *f the
upper floor was made to learn if all the em
ployes had escaped. At the head of a stair
way Michael Sullivan and Kittle Nolan
were found insensible. They had been suf
focated by the smoke and had fallen close
together. They were carried down to the
street, and Miss Nolan died an hour later.
Sullivan will recover. The loss by fire to
window glass company was $1,000, but the
damage hy water Is estimated at $15,000.
Fully insured.
Before, this flre had been extinguished an
other alarm was sounded calling the de
partment to the big sash and blind factory
of A. Teachout & Co. on Michigan street.
The fire started in the warehouse, and be
fore the firemen reached the scene the
flames had spread to two other buildings
connected with the warehouse by bridges,
and the flre was beyond control. Soou after
the firemen began work an explosion oc
curred In the paint room which blew the
Michigan street front of the building across
the street. A number of persons, were
standing on the sidewalk and the firemen
were playing on the front. Col. 0. C. Dew
stoe was thrown backward by the explosion
and Harvey C. Becson of Detroit was blown
clear acrosB the street and badly hurt. Flre
man Charles Weller, Injured internally
Fireman John J. Kelly and Fireman Michael
Maloney also, received severe bruises. After
the explosion the flre spread to the four
story brick block of M. Mlttleberger ft Son,
dealers in hides, adjoining, which was par
tially destroyed. L. C. Beardsley's tin can
works and Wood Brothers' tile workB were
also damaged. The loss of A. Teachout ft
Co. is total, and will reach $200,000 In
surance about $100,000 Mlttleberger ft Son.
loss $20,000 insurance, $15,000: Wood
Bros., loss, $8,000 insurance, S7.QOO L. C.
Beardsley's loss $500 insured. .A strong
wind was blowing at the time of the flre.
and great clouds of sparkB were carried over
the buslnesH streets. There Is a belief that
the fires wore of incendiary origin.
Death of Julius Weniel.
Lake City, Minn., Special, Oct. 27.—Julias
Wenzel, who has been successfully engaged
in business here for a number of years,
died to-day, aged thirty-two years.
leaves a widow und two young oluldren.'
.. Can be counted on
to-day and asked to be provided with means T*
to reach home.' He said he bad just come
ner wnicn ne .—
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this Remedy—there's a care that.
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perfect and permanent.
worst chronic cases, no matter of
how long standing, yield to ite
mild, soothing cleansing and heal
ing properties. "Cold in the Head"
needs bat a few application®, Ca
tarrhal Headache, and all tho
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friend
troubles that come from Catarrh,
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The proprietors of Dr, Bain's
Remedy, in good faith,
offer-
that
amount for an. incurable case of
Catarrh. Don't think that yoa
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